Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.
Killed in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War.
~~ General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, d. 1863

Admiral Tryon after he ordered an impossible manoeuvre of two battleships in the Med in the 1880s. They inevitably collided and one sank with great loss of life. As the ship went down Tryon was heard to mutter -

Admiral Tryon after he ordered an impossible manoeuvre of two battleships in the Med in the 1880s. They inevitably collided and one sank with great loss of life. As the ship went down Tryon was heard to mutter -

'It was all my fault!'

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Story about him: Apparently at the time of the aforementioned action, his wife saw her husband standing in their study